[HN Gopher] The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
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The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
Author : susam
Score : 75 points
Date : 2023-01-12 09:49 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.windytan.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.windytan.com)
| DerekBickerton wrote:
| Link to the sound: https://oona.windytan.com/blogfiles/dialup.mp3
| imwillofficial wrote:
| So. Many. Memories.
| now__what wrote:
| The pure dopamine hit from this sound clip: unrivalled.
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| Found my new ring-tone!
|
| I remember with the 56k modems I would occasionally hear a "bong"
| sound a couple of times.
| mgomez wrote:
| I have tinnitus. I always describe my particular case as sounding
| like a dialup modem that's being "muffled" because it's in the
| next room over, behind closed doors. With this I can now pinpoint
| the specific section (ANSam, 0:09-0:10).
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Posted and discussed a few times in the past:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26626437 - March 30, 2021
| (44 comments)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635144 - Nov 6, 2017 (108
| comments)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171514 - March 9, 2015 (35
| comments)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140135 - Jan 30, 2013 (46
| comments)
| dylan604 wrote:
| [flagged]
| Jtsummers wrote:
| > Karmajunkiearewe?
|
| Not really, these comments usually get -1 to +3 votes when I
| make them and I don't make them that often, just when I
| recognize the submission.
| pessimizer wrote:
| I bet if you're interested in reading comments about this
| story on HN, you'd appreciate reading hundreds of comments in
| four past threads. I don't understand the purpose in
| discouraging people from posting them. When dang does it, is
| it because he's karma-whoring?
| jamesdwilson wrote:
| One thing I never quite understood about dialup is how they
| managed to handle duplex communication. That is, when one side is
| talking, how did the other side not talk over it, or how did they
| take turns, or how did they discern who said what.. like when one
| side was broadcasting, didn't it muddle up the audio on the other
| side?
| klondike_ wrote:
| Presumably uplink and downlink use different frequencies,
| similar to how duplex radio works
| psim1 wrote:
| No need to presume; the ITU-T standards are surprisingly
| readable!
|
| https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-V.22-198811-I
|
| For this older standard (1200 bps using FSK modulation) it
| does indeed use separate bands (from section 6.1):
|
| On the general switched telephone network, the modem at the
| calling data station shall transmit in the low channel and
| receive in the high channel (call mode). The modem at the
| answering data station shall receive in the low channel and
| transmit in the high channel (answer mode).
|
| The newer modem standards are far more sophisticated and I
| don't know anything about them. I picked this one because I
| had been working with V.22 in the past year.
| [deleted]
| ck2 wrote:
| Just can't make myself throw out my US Robotics 56k external
| modem, huge RS-232 cable and all.
|
| How far we've come.
| pm215 wrote:
| I was still using mine for the answerphone capability (it was a
| "voice" modem variant) until the end of last year; but now I
| have no analogue phone service, only VOIP...
| altgeek wrote:
| "HST-only. 0 day warez"
|
| Same here, I can't bear to part with the Darth Vader of modems.
| 1001101 wrote:
| HST training sequence was the best sounding. Would love to
| hear that again, and see a breakdown of what was going on
| there. Probably not as easy as maybe it's a trade secret vs.
| published standard. Also the stealth fighter of modems if you
| remember the print ads for it.
| remir wrote:
| I wish I could go back in time in the 90s and re-live those early
| internet moments from childhood.
| clnq wrote:
| Thanks to dial-up, the 90s internet also couldn't handle all
| the junk, spam, and tracking garbage we have online today. And
| video ads or autoplay? Just funny to even think about.
| neilv wrote:
| Back when, as a young kid, I had access to a dumb terminal with a
| modem, and trying all the local-call BBSes from a list that
| circulated, it was very easy to tell some things by the sounds on
| the speaker: at what baud you synced, whether the BBS had a
| Telebit that did PEP tones, whether it was busy, offline, or some
| other problems.
|
| I feel a little bit of nostalgia for the sounds (especially if
| it's for a successful connection). It was also a somewhat more
| decent time in computers, much like the early Internet. Every now
| and then, I have to stop myself from shopping on eBay for a
| vintage dumb terminal. But my wirelessly networked laptop and
| pocket computers with access to global hypertext of the world's
| knowledge and people are pretty neat, too.
| nigrioid wrote:
| Here is a really cool collection of modem sounds:
|
| https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-colle...
|
| https://archive.goughlui.com/legacy/soundofmodems/index.htm
|
| https://archive.goughlui.com/legacy/modemlab/index.htm
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